Polyplacophoran Feeding Traces on Mediterranean Pliocene Sirenian Bones: Insights on the Role of Grazing Bioeroders in Shallow-Marine Vertebrate Falls by Alberto Collareta, Marco Merella, Simone Casati, Andrea Di Cencio, Chiara Tinelli, Giovanni Bianucci

“…Chitons (Polyplacophora) include some of the most conspicuous bioeroders of the present-day shallow seas. Abundant palaeontological evidence for the feeding activity of ancient chitons is preserved in the form of radular traces that are usually found on invertebrate shells and hardgrounds. …”
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New data on Cretaceous freshwater hybodont sharks from Guangxi Province, South China by Gilles Cuny, Jinyou Mo, Romain Amiot, Eric Buffetaut, Suravech Suteethorn, Varavudh Suteethorn, Haiyan Tong

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<title language="eng">Study of chelicerae in the tick Amblyomma cajennense (Fabricius 1787) by scanning electron microscopy by M. Ansel, M. Thibaut

“…Considerations on the palaeontologic origin of ticks and Acari are made with reference to literature.…”
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European UNESCO Geoparks: Introduction to Part II by Michael Benton

“…The concept of the volume is to survey all the key geoparks throughout Europe in terms of their palaeontological significance. The second set of 36 articles in this Part cover the long span of geological time from the Triassic to the Quaternary, arranged in chronostratigraphic order. …”
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Discovering Hominins - Application of Medical Computed Tomography (CT) to Fossil-Bearing Rocks from the Site of Malapa, South Africa. by Jacqueline S Smilg, Lee R Berger

“…Improvements in CT equipment and in CT image quality are such that medical CT is now a viable imaging modality for this palaeontological application.…”
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Middle and Late Pleistocene mammal fossils of Arabia and surrounding regions: Implications for biogeography and hominin dispersals by Stewart, M, Louys, J, Price, GJ, Drake, NA, Groucutt, HS, Petraglia, MD

“…Exploration and palaeontological study of faunal exchanges has traditionally centred on East Africa, North Africa and the Levant in Southwest Asia. …”

Skeletal variation in bird domestication: limb proportions and sternum in chicken, with comparisons to mallard ducks and Muscovy ducks by Carlos Manuel Herrera-Castillo, Madeleine Geiger, Daniel Núñez-León, Hiroshi Nagashima, Sabine Gebhardt-Henrich, Michael Toscano, Marcelo R. Sanchez-Villagra

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Evolution and palaeobiology of early Sauropodomorph dinosaurs / by Barrett, Paul M., Dr, Batten, D. J.

The Geo-educational and Conservational Challenges Posed by Unconsolidated Deposits: Some Thoughts and Possible Solutions as Applied to Diamicton Deposits from the British Isles by Murphy Phillip

“…These are often poorly exposed and as a result their influence on development and importance as palaeontological archives are often under appreciated. …”
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First occurrence of brachyopid temnospondyls in Southeast Asia and review of the Mesozoic amphibians from Thailand by T. Nonsrirach, S. Manitkoon, K. Lauprasert, K. Lauprasert

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A <i>Solemys</i> Skull from the Late Cretaceous of Southern France by Haiyan Tong, Eric Buffetaut, Patrick Méchin, Annie Méchin-Salessy, Julien Claude

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MiTiSegmenter: Software for high throughput segmentation and meshing of microCT data in microtiter plate arrays by Kendrick Connah, Buckley Michael, Charlotte Brassey

“…We present MiTiSegmenter as a new tool for the bulk archiving of valuable zooarchaeological and palaeontological remains. We foresee MiTiSegmenter as particularly useful when incorporated into workflows that ultimately require the destructive testing of specimens, including sampling for ancient DNA and proteomics. …”
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Methodologies for the visualization and reconstruction of three-dimensional fossils from the silurian herefordshire lagerstätte by Sutton, MD, Briggs, D, Siveter, D, Siveter, D

“…The approach will provide the primary means of study of the Herefordshire fauna, and has the potential to provide a method of obtaining and/or communicating morphological information in a variety of palaeontological applications. Copyright: Palaeontological Association, 22 June 2001.…”

PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS ON THE UPPER CRETACEOUS CORAL-RUDIST FACIES OF OSTUNI (SOUTH-EASTERN MURGE, APULIA) by ANGELA LAVIANO

“…The Upper Cretaceous carbonate platform deposits of Ostuni have been studied from a stratigraphical, palaeontological and palaeoecological point of view.  …”
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An additional hadrosaurid specimen (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the marine Maastrichtian deposits of the Maastricht area by Buffetaut Eric

“…An isolated dinosaur vertebra from the marine deposits of the Maastrichtian type area, near the city of Maastricht (The Netherlands), collected during the 19th century and kept in the palaeontological collection of the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, is described as a caudal vertebra of a hadrosaurid ornithopod. …”
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Tibet, the Himalaya, Asian monsoons and biodiversity – In what ways are they related? by Robert A. Spicer

“…Here, spanning the last 60 million years of Earth history, the geological, climatological and palaeontological evidence for this linkage is reviewed. …”
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Early members of ‘living fossil’ lineage imply later origin of modern ray-finned fishes by Giles, S, Xu, G, Near, T, Friedman, M

“…These new dates are broadly consistent with our revised palaeontological timescale and coincident with an interval of conspicuous morphological and taxonomic diversification among ray-fins centred on the Devonian–Carboniferous boundary. …”

A NEW ARTHROPOD IN CHAIN-LIKE ASSOCIATIONS FROM THE CHENGJIANG LAGERSTATTE (LOWER CAMBRIAN), YUNNAN, CHINA by Xian-Guang, H, Siveter, D, Aldridge, R, Siveter, D

“…The chain-like association is suggested to represent an example of collective behaviour, possibly associated with reproduction, or more likely migration. © The Palaeontological Association, 2009.…”

Fossil assemblage from the Khok Pha Suam locality of northeastern, Thailand: an overview of vertebrate diversity from the Early Cretaceous Khok Kruat Formation (Aptian-Albian) by Sita Manitkoon, Uthumporn Deesri, Komsorn Lauprasert, Prapasiri Warapeang, Thanit Nonsrirach, Apirut Nilpanapan, Kamonlak Wongko, Phornphen Chanthasit

“…In addition to consolidating unincorporated data on fauna, this study also provides the palaeontological data necessary to illustrate the palaeoecosystem to the general public, as well as improving the academic value of the Pha Chan-Sam Phan Bok Geopark.…”
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Equatorial pliosaurid from Venezuela marks the youngest South American occurrence of the clade by Dylan Bastiaans, Daniel Madzia, Jorge D. Carrillo-Briceño, Sven Sachs

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